Updated 28 February, 2021 • recent changes scripts/fontlist • leave a comment
This page provides samples of text in various languages, grouped by script. You can specify a particular font if you have it on your device (except that Safari only allows system fonts).
Choose a script:
adlam •
ahom •
arabic •
armenian •
balinese •
bamum •
bassa vah •
batak •
bengali •
buginese •
buhid •
canadian syllabics •
cham •
chakma •
cherokee •
chinese •
coptic •
cyrillic •
devanagari •
ethiopic •
georgian •
greek •
gujarati •
gunjala gondi •
gurmukhi •
hanifi rohingya •
hanunoo •
hebrew •
japanese •
javanese •
kaithi •
kannada •
kayah li •
khmer •
khojki •
korean •
lao •
latin •
lepcha •
limbu •
lisu •
malayalam •
mandaic •
masaram gondi •
mende kikakui •
meetei mayek •
miao •
modi •
mongolian •
mro •
myanmar •
newa •
new tai lue •
n'ko •
nyiakeng puachue hmong •
ol chiki •
old hungarian •
oriya •
osage •
osmanya •
pahawh hmong •
rejang •
runic •
saurashtra •
samaritan •
shavian •
sinhala •
sora sompeng •
sundanese •
syloti nagri •
syriac •
tai le •
tagalog •
tagbanwa •
tai tham •
tai viet •
tamil •
telugu •
thaana •
thai •
tibetan •
tifinagh •
vai •
warang citi •
wancho •
yezidi •
yi
anatolian hieroglyphs • avestan • bhaiksuki • brahmi • cypriot syllabary • deseret • dogra • egyptian hieroglyphs • elymaic • glagolitic • gothic • grantha • hatran • imperial aramaic • kharoshthi • khudawadi • linear b • lycian • lydian • mahajani • makasar • manichaean • marchen • multani • nabataean • ogham • old persian • old south arabian • old turkic • pahlavi • palmyrene • parthian • phags-pa • phoenician • sharada • siddham • soyombo • takri • tirhuta • ugaritic • zanabazar square
The default text used is article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, taken from this Unicode page, wherever I could find it. I created a few instances myself, where it was missing, and occasionally I resorted to other texts or even arbitrary lists of characters. I'm indebted to Omniglot for many of the less common samples.
In some cases, a square box with a cross in it is displayed (this only occurs in the text view if you have the Adobe NotDef font installed). This indicates that the font doesn't cover all the glyphs needed to represent the sample text. Most often this applies to punctuation or other common characters. In Latin text, in particular, it indicates which fonts support extended characters and which don't. In normal use in a Web browser, glyphs for such characters will be backfilled by using a glyph from some other font.
All images are set to 28px in size by default, but this can be changed.